Leonard Medal
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The Leonard Medal honors outstanding contributions to the science of meteoritics
and closely allied fields.http://www.meteoriticalsociety.org/simple_template.cfm?code=home_awards It is awarded by the Meteoritical Society
. It was established in 1962 to honor the first President of the Society, Frederick C. Leonard
.
Meteoritics
Meteoritics is a science that deals with meteorites and other extraterrestrial materials that further our understanding of the origin and history of the solar system. A specialist who studies meteoritics is known as a meteoriticist....
and closely allied fields.http://www.meteoriticalsociety.org/simple_template.cfm?code=home_awards It is awarded by the Meteoritical Society
Meteoritical Society
The Meteoritical Society is a non-profit scholarly organization founded in 1933 to promote research and education in planetary science with emphasis on studies of meteorites and other extraterrestrial materials that further our understanding of the origin and history of the solar system.The...
. It was established in 1962 to honor the first President of the Society, Frederick C. Leonard
Frederick C. Leonard
Frederick Charles Leonard was an astrophysicist at the UCLA who organised the UCLA's Department of Astronomy. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago in 1918 and his Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of California at Berkeley in 1921....
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| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 1966 | Carlyle Smith Beals Carlyle Smith Beals Carlyle Smith Beals, was a Canadian astronomer.Born in Canso, Nova Scotia, Beals worked at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, Victoria, BC, until 1946. There, he studied emission lines in the spectra of certain hot stars, and studied gas clouds in the interstellar medium... |
| 1967 | Harvey H. Nininger Harvey H. Nininger Harvey Harlow Nininger , American meteorite collector, self-taught meteoriticist and educator, revived interest in the scientific study of meteorites in the 1930s, and assembled the largest personal collection of meteorites up to that time. He founded the American Meteorite Museum, which was first... |
| 1968 | Ernst Öpik Ernst Öpik Ernst Julius Öpik was a noted Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist who spent the second half of his career at the Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland.-Education:... |
| 1969 | Harold C. Urey |
| 1970 | Fred L. Whipple |
| 1971 | E. L. Krinov |
| 1972 | Brian Harold Mason Brian Harold Mason Brian Harold Mason was a New Zealand born geochemist and mineralogist who was one of the pioneers in the study of meteorites.Mason has played a leading part in understanding the nature of the solar system through his studies of meteorites and lunar rocks.Mason has also examined and classified... |
| 1973 | John Reynolds John Reynolds (physicist) John Hamilton Reynolds was an American physicist and a specialist in mass spectrometry.-Life:John H. Reynolds was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He studied first at Harvard University and, after serving in the Navy during World War II, at the University of Chicago. There, he was... |
| 1974 | Edward Anders |
| 1975 | Gerald J. Wasserburg Gerald J. Wasserburg Gerald J. Wasserburg is an American geologist. He is the John D. MacArthur Professor of Geology and Geophysics, Emeritus, at the California Institute of Technology... |
| 1976 | James A. Arnold |
| 1977 | Hans E. Suess |
| 1978 | John A. Wood |
| 1979 | Paul Ramdohr Paul Ramdohr Paul Ramdohr, also Paul A. Ramdohr , was a German mineralogist, ore deposit-researcher and a pioneer of ore microscopy.- Life :... |
| 1980 | Heinrich Wänke |
| 1981 | George W. Wetherill |
| 1982 | Robert N. Clayton |
| 1983 | Johannes Geiss |
| 1984 | B. Y. Levin |
| 1985 | Eugene M. Shoemaker |
| 1986 | Ralph Belknap Baldwin Ralph Belknap Baldwin Ralph Belknap Baldwin was an American planetary scientist known for his work on lunar craters, beginning in the late 1940s... |
| 1987 | Masatake Honda |
| 1988 | Klaus Keil Klaus Keil Klaus Keil is a professor at the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. He is the former Director of the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology. He is also the former director of the University of New Mexico Institute of Meteoritics. Klaus... |
| 1989 | Victor S. Safronov |
| 1990 | Peter Eberhardt |
| 1991 | Donald D. Clayton |
| 1992 | John T. Wasson |
| 1993 | Robert M. Walker (scientist) |
| 1994 | Alastair Cameron |
| 1995 | Friedrich Begemann |
| 1996 | Donald E. Brownlee Donald E. Brownlee Don Brownlee is a professor of astronomy at the University of Washington and the principal investigator for NASA's STARDUST mission. His primary research interests include astrobiology, comets, cosmic dust, and porsche evangelism.... |
| 1997 | Ernst Zinner |
| 1998 | S. Ross Taylor |
| 1999 | Grenville Turner Grenville Turner Grenville Turner is a research professor at the University of Manchester. He is one of the pioneers of cosmochemistry.- Education :* Todmorden Grammar School* St... |
| 2000 | Günter W. Lugmair |
| 2001 | Harry Y. McSween Jr |
| 2002 | Donald D. Bogard |
| 2003 | Herbert Palme |
| 2004 | Michael Julian Drake Michael Julian Drake Michael Julian Drake , Regent’s Professor, was the Director of the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and head of the Department of Planetary Science. He was the principal investigator of the Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer ... |
| 2005 | Joseph I. Goldstein Joseph I. Goldstein Joe Goldstein is an American scientist and engineer, working mainly in the fields of materials science and mechanical engineering. He is currently a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and emeritus Dean of Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst... |
| 2006 | Michael J. Gaffey Michael James Gaffey Michael James Gaffey is a planetary scientist who specializes in deriving the mineralogies of asteroids from their reflectance spectra.He received his bachelors and masters degrees in geology from the University of Iowa and his PhD from MIT in planetary science graduating in 1974. From 1974 to... |
| 2007 | Michel Maurette |
| 2008 | Edward R. D. Scott |
| 2009 | Lawrence Grossman |
| 2010 | Hiroshi Takeda |
| 2011 | François Robert |
| 2013 | Donald Burnett |